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How Should Research Performance be Measured? A Study of Swedish Economists

Henrekson, Magnus; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

Billions of dollars are allocated every year to university research. Increased specialisation and international integration of research and researchers has sharply raised the need for comparisons of performance across fields, institutions and individual researchers. However, there is still no...

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Citation Success: Evidence from Economic History Journal Publications

Waldenström, Daniel; Di Vaio, Gianfranco; Weisdorf, Jacob - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

This study examines the determinants of citation success among authors who recently published their work in economic history journals. We find that full professors, authors from non-economic history departments, and authors working in Anglo-Saxon countries are all more likely to get cited than...

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Entrepreneurship and Second-best Institutions: Going Beyond Baumol’s Typology

Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper reconsiders the predominant typology pioneered by Baumol (1990) between productive, unproductive and destructive entrepreneurship. Baumol’s classificatory scheme is built around a limited concept of first-best outcomes and therefore easily fails to appreciate the true impact of...

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Superentrepreneurship in Europe Compared to Other Industrialised Regions

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

strong performance in technological innovation. …

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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth

Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …

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Are High-Growth Firms Overrepresented in High-Tech Industries?

Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Elert, Niklas; Johansson, Dan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

It is frequently argued that policymakers should target high-tech firms, i.e., firms with high R&D intensity, because such firms are considered more innovative and therefore potential fast-growers. This argument relies on the assumption that the association among high-tech status, innovativeness...

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Human Flourishing

Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This essay uses Edmund Phelps new book Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs,Challenge, and Change … (Princeton University Press, 2013) as inspiration to discuss innovation and entrepreneurship. The book is laudable for its … innovation and the lack of convincing empirical evidence for the claim that the rate of innovation has slowed. These flaws are …

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Incentive Contracts for Managers Who Discover and Manage Investment Projects

Campbell, Tim; Marino, Tony - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

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Agency Costs and Innovation

Holmström, Bengt - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989

(innovation) with easy to measure activities (routine) is particularly costly, since it will either lead to misallocation of … and to financial constraints imposed by capital markets, both of which are hostile to innovation. …

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Technology, Economic Competence and the Theory of the Firm

Eliasson, Gunnar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993

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